It is better to starve than get a bad client.
Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.
Newton was a judaic monotheist of the school of Maimonides
It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money.
The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
The more effort we make to appreciate and perceive reality, the larger and more accurate our maps will be. But many do not want to make this effort.
The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it
Yorgos Lanthimos said, "What about if he's a bit soft?" And I said, "Yeah, I think you're right. " He just comfort-eats a little bit too much. He's just asleep in his own life and has let himself go. And the mustache, I don't know if it was him or I suggested it. But I remember my sister was watching me eat and she was like, "God, does he have to be fat?" And in retrospect I couldn't think of David being any other way because it affected the way I moved. It really did. It slowed me down in a way that I felt was conducive to kind of tapping into the spirit of the character.